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From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: eranian@gmail.com, Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] perf_event: when events are grouped, the time enabled /  running values are incorrect
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:23:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTilVGy3nLymHUj-blglsL3y5ApyhUWrunxJYeQPb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273608676.1810.61.camel@laptop>

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 21:55 +0200, stephane eranian wrote:
>> Events are also grouped in this example. Both this same issue exists
>> also when only
>> one event is used. I suspect an update_event_times() or
>> update_group_times() is also
>> missing on the sampling path in perf_overflow_handler().
>
> Hrmm, you're right, except fixing that is non-trivial.
> update_event_times() wants to be called with ctx->lock held and we can't
> do that from NMI context.
>
Why do you need the lock when the event is running on a CPU in NMI context?
What action issued remotely could modify the data used by this function without
the need for IPI?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-08  1:56 [BUG] perf_event: when events are grouped, the time enabled / running values are incorrect Corey Ashford
2010-05-08  2:24 ` Corey Ashford
2010-05-11 14:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-11 15:43   ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix exit() vs event-groups tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-11 19:55   ` [BUG] perf_event: when events are grouped, the time enabled / running values are incorrect stephane eranian
2010-05-11 20:11     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-11 20:23       ` Stephane Eranian [this message]
2010-05-11 20:27         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-12 17:25   ` Corey Ashford
2010-05-12 17:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-12 18:15       ` Corey Ashford
2010-05-12 18:42       ` Corey Ashford
2010-05-13  0:10     ` Paul Mackerras
2010-05-13 10:17       ` Paul Mackerras
2010-05-13 17:37         ` Corey Ashford

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